"In the event of a percieved failing of the project leadership #debian is
empowered to take drastic and descisive action to correct the failing,
including by not limited to expelling officials, apointing new officials
and generally abusing power"
-- proposed amendment to Debian Constitution

"When those living in the United States speak of the incompatibility of
science and religion, it is almost invariably the Christian religion that
has claimed their attention. No other religion in history has marshaled
its forces so energetically to oppose and suppress astronomy, physics and
the biological sciences. For many sects of Christianity, psychology and
anthropology have been added as religion's principal adversaries."
[Chester Dolan, "Blind Faith"]

"The Pope put his foot on the neck of kings, but Calvin
and his cohorts crushed the whole human race under their
heels in the name of the Lord of Hosts."
[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., address to the
Massachusetts Medical Society, May 30, 1860]